Salome, you? Be welcome
Above all others, ’spite your mourning-garments.
This I could scarce have hoped.
Salome.
Indeed I must
If I will learn how matters stand. I have been
Invited to a feast, and yet they say
No word of why the feast is being given.
True, I can guess it, but I must have knowledge.
Herod returns, of course, and we shall see him